Everything Is Connected: Reimagining the World One Postcard at a Time

by Keri Smith

From the creator of Wreck This Journal, comes an imaginative new project: fifty postcards that send you on a quest to reanimate everyday life.

Leave notes in public for strangers, dream up a tiny imaginary world, summon magic powers, draw a portrait of yourself as a hero, create your own treasure map, or access a secret portal whenever you wish.

Don’t you just love getting something unexpected in the mail?

Genres: Nonfiction, Art, Journal, Crafts

51 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 2013

About the author

Keri Smith is an author/illustrator turned guerilla artist. She has several bestselling books, including Wreck This Journal, This is Not a Book, How To Be An Explorer of the World, Mess, Finish this Book, and The Wander Society all published by Penguin Books. Read more at her website http://WWW.KERISMITH.COM
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Reviews

[Tina · Rating 5 out of 5]

TOO much fun!
Full of action and surprises.
Creative correspondence
Kind and wonderful.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

561 - 2015

Aku suka mengumpulkan kartu pos, meskipun cuma sesukanya dan sedapatnya. Jadi, pas menemukan buku kartu pos ini di slot bargain books-nya Peri+ online, ya kubeli deh.

Anyway, seperti biasa, Keri Smith menganjurkan pada pembacanya untuk berkreasi dengan memanfaatkan koleksi kartu pos ini. Misalnya... ada yang disarankan untuk dikubur di halaman tetangga. Atau ada juga yang diminta untuk dilipat-lipat dan dijadikan perahu kertas (perahu kartu?) dan dibiarkan mengalir sampai jauh...

Seperti kasus buku-buku Keri Smith sebelumnya, semua "perintah" Keri Smith kucuekin deh. Buku kartu pos ini tetap utuh, karena aku cuma membaca apa yang ditulis Keri Smith pada setiap lembar kartu pos :P

Masa sih aku begitu teganya, teganya, teganya... untuk menghancurkan sebuah buku (ataupun selembar kartu pos), meskipun demi melepas stress...

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everybody loves receiving letters and postcards; it's a lovely change to all those bills. In this book Keri Smith is encouraging us to remember that joy by exploring postcards in fun and creative ways. Some cards make you explore your environment, others are games, one of my favourites is sending a card to a friend and seeing how many times you can send it back and forth.

For me it's Smith's illustrations that really make the postcards and there are even a few to make you test your own drawing skills and imagination. There is something new on each page, so you are sure to find something that captures your interest. Each card has a serrated edge meaning they can be torn out easily and the fun can begin.

[Sidek · Rating 4 out of 5]

The only reason i bought this book in the 1st place because the price was about USD2 dollars at a bookfair. While flipping through the pages at first my thought was "ok so these are postcards i could use to send to my friends".
After i get home, i read postcard by postcard, and now i dont want to give this funny pieces to anyone i just keep this for myself.

So i get myself a journal and fill it with whatever instructions/prompts from Everything Is Connected.

It was fun.

[Melissa Wehunt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute book. Actually, there are some interesting things that I might try with my Teen group...maybe during Poetry month or something. Not really sure this makes a great library book, but I'm still glad we have it. :) Part of me wishes it was mine so I could use the postcards!

[Tiare · Rating 4 out of 5]

So I didn't really buy this book, I read it on a visit to Barnes and Noble, but several of the pages made me smile, and I would totally recommend doing the suggested activities in this book. I'll do it myself someday.

[Pihla · Rating 4 out of 5]

What can I say? I love Keri Smith!

[Intan Dzikria · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just LOVE Keri Smith!!! Every postcards in this "book" makes me happy to do an out of the box things in my daily life!!

[محمود راضي · Rating 4 out of 5]

أنا من عشاق كتب كيري سميث، لديها نبع لا ينضب من اﻷفكار حول كل شيء بشكل يدفعك إلى إعادة التفكير حول كل ما تراه لكي تعيد صياغته بما يتلائم مع خيالك، وهى للحق من أكثر الكتاب/ الرسامين ممن يلهمونني.

[Tracey · Rating 4 out of 5]

not a novel. more of an amazing creative workbook. superb for getting back to simpler things, to reignite your creativity, to get your brain cogs moving. I love Keri Smith's work!

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

i want to read this book

[Candy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved these ideas for reaching out to the world. Read the whole set of postcards; now I need to buy it and use them!